Proper trailer for ‘Tokyo!’ is now online

The official website for Tokyo! added a full trailer to replace the useless teaser they uploaded back in May. To find it just go there and click the trailer box in the bottom left of the city navigation. Aside from the fact that they used godawful Sorenson H.263 video encoding it’s looking really good. In Joon-ho Bong’s segment, Shaking Tokyo, Teruyuki Kagawa plays a recluse who hasn’t left his apartment in 10 years but an infatuation with his pizza delivery girl (Yu Aoi) and a well-timed earthquake force him outside. In Michel Gondry’s Interior Design, Ayako Fujitani (Steven Seagal’s daughter, but I promise she didn’t inherit the douche gene) plays a directionless girl named Hiroko who’s dating a filmmaker named Akira (Ryo Kase). As Hiroko frets about her uselessness she begins to (literally) transform into a piece of furniture—but somehow she actually feels relieved by the process. In Leos Carax’s Merde a strange raving foreigner rises from the sewers and terrorizes citizens of Tokyo before getting picked up by the police. However, as his trial moves forward people begin to have mixed feelings about his treatment and he becomes a bit of a pop culture phenomenon.

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Tags: ayako fujitani, ayumi ito, nao omori, naoto takenaka, ryo kase, satoshi tsumabuki, teruyuki kagawa, tokyo, yu aoi